<p>All the posts on here have their gpa out of 4.0 or whatever. At my school, they always give gpa out of 100%. I don't even see how the other way works, really.</p>
<p>Does anyone else go to a school like me???</p>
<p>GPA is the average of your grades based on the letter grade system.
Percent---Letter----GP
90-100%----A-------4
80-89%-----B-------3
70-79%-----C-------2
66-69%-----D-------1
<=65%------F-------0</p>
<p>There are also "weighted" GPAs in which Honors and/or AP/IB classes are given extra points due to their difficulty. Example: At my school, a C in an AP class is worth the same as a B in an honors class or an A in a regular class.
Colleges rarely look at weighted GPA, but it is often used for class rank.</p>
<p>That's lame...I mean...a person could have a 98 in every class and get a 4.0, while someone else got a 91 in every class and got a 4.0, too.</p>
<p>I like the percent method.</p>
<p>Well at my school it's broken down a little more, but it is less precise than the percent method.</p>
<p>Eh, I hope my high school uses the gpa method. But my junior high school used precents.</p>
<p>percents here. so much better.</p>
<p>I agree that the 4.0 system disadvantages high performing students, and gives a somewhat unfair boost to those who take cake classes (the unweighted GPA at least) and just scrape by.</p>
<p>I know tons of kids who work only just hard enough to get that 92.5 (4.0).</p>
<p>Are these percentages from test scores? I don't go to an American school so we don't have a GPA system, but I'm finding it hard to believe that most people here get over 90% on almost every test. Are these tests easy or are you guys just that smart/diligent?</p>
<p>Class grades come from a variety of grades, tests quizes, and the inflators for most people, homework and class participation.</p>
<p>ive always wondered how colleges view your high school weighted GPA because every school weighs their courses differently. Colleges cant recalculate grades because some students have a mass ammount of APs while others have none most likely due to their environment. I dont know if im right but I have a feeling the unweighted GPA (4.0 scale) is more significant...which does indeed put high performing seniors at a disadvantage</p>
<p>They evalate weighted by asking the GCs what the weighted GPA of the Val and what your weighted.</p>
<p>That is NOT true.</p>
<p>The ranking system Four Penguins give is not accurate.
First off a 3.5 with perfect attend. is an 88% average.</p>
<p>Nixxi- GPA calculations are different for every school. I myself have never even heard of attendance being factored into GPA.</p>
<p>Nixxi- what the hell?
If attendence was a factor, my 4.0 GPA would've been a 2.0</p>
<p>The advantage of the 4.0 system lies in its ability to level differences in course difficulty between teachers, schools, and regions. If one teacher is a little harder than another, one student may receive an 91 instead of a 95, but both contribute a 4.0 [admittadly, it could almost as easily be a 86 and a 91, so yeah...but whatever.].</p>
<p>Hmmm... I don't understand the 4 point scale. My school uses the percent system, which makes perfect sense to me. (AP's +10, Pre-AP's +5 on weighted GPA to compensate for the difficulty)</p>
<p>It sounds like this way the people who deserve it get those high ranks, and those who don't are lower. </p>
<p>On a similar note, how are people ranked if on the 4 point scale it seems everybody can get a 4...</p>
<p>AP's are worth only .1 and my school is going to stop weighing.
Oy.</p>
<p>Some schools factor attendance but the 4.0 = 90%-100% doesn't make much sense to me.</p>
<p>For the purposes of not wearing out my fingers, I didn't list my school's complete GPA policy, just a general overview.
To clarify, my school does give fractions of a gradepoint for "+" or "-." I don't want to retype my whole student handbook, so I won't give you the whole breakdown, but in the case of the "A" range, the breakdown is:</p>
<p>'A+' ---- >97.5 ----- 4.6
'A' ----- >92.5 ----- 4.3
'A-' ---- >89.5 ----- 4.0</p>
<p>As some people have mentioned, this differs in every school. Some have fractions of a point for +/- like my school, some don't. Apparently, some factor in attendance. Different percent ranges are also used, but in general, the system is fairly universal amongst schools who use a GPA.</p>
<p>I agree that the percent system makes more sense. The letter/GPA system is really a relic of the days before percent-based grading.</p>
<p>In response to Fusion's comment on how easily people seem to be aceing tests, there are two reasons for that. The first is that only the top students even bother to seek out college forums in high school, and the second is that the American education system is deeply flawed. Years of complaints about material being too hard have resulted in ridiculously easy tests and quizzes.</p>
<p>As far as colleges go, from what I hear, most colleges look at straight grades and compare your courseload to the courseload your school offers. They recalculate GPA themselves by their own criteria from this information.</p>
<p>Our school accounted for +/- too, but a bit differently. It's roughly</p>
<p>'A+' ---- >100 ----- 4.3
'A' ----- >92.5 ----- 4.0
'A-' ---- >89.5 ----- 3.7</p>
<p>At my school, they didn't factor in honors/AP classes at ALL.. so I have a 4.06 GPA when I could probably have something towards the 4.3+ range, haha. </p>
<p>The past tense is because they're changing the system so you can't get A+'s, and advanced classes WILL impact your GPA. The problem was that anyone with a 4.0+ was considered a valedictorian... meaning my school had about twenty. </p>
<p>Not sure if they'll recalculate the senior year's GPAs. One can only hope.</p>
<p>my school doesn't have weighting, but it's out of a 4.5 scale... like
95-100 4.5
90-94 4.0
85-89 3.5
... ...
65-69 1.5
60-64 1.0
50-59 .5 (failing grade, but an E for effort)</p>
<p>i dont' like it, because some teachers don't give 4.5s which isn't fair because someone with the same course and another teacher could get a 4.5 and boost their gpa... AND we doesn't have weighted</p>